The Glovers improved immensely to turn around the form against Carlisle. Ian, Dave and Ben discuss the result, performance, the signings and take your questions.
Thanks to Tim Hubble, Chris Fox, Michael Stone and Andrew Foot for the voice notes!
Yeovil turned their dreadful October form around to earn a point against high-flying Carlisle United but probably deserved more. Here are Ian’s Conclusions from Huish Park.
For the love of god, please can we stick with the back four? There’s irony in the fact that we are healthily stocked at centre back but, once again, look so much more comfortable with two rather than three. The Wannell and Williams combination returned and we looked immediately more calm, composed and controlled. I thought that was Wannell’s best performance of the season and he was every bit the Rolls Royce centre back we’ve enjoyed over the last two campaigns. George Nurse looks the part at left back – although he understandably tired towards full time and Michee Efete had a good game on the other side up against one of the league’s best players in Regan Linney.
Max Jolliffe had a great debut. We debated throwing him in Friday’s podcast, but based on that small sample size, he’s more than ready. We’ve been crying out for mobility in midfield and Jolliffe gave the Glovers that in abundance. He’s keen in the challenge and showed some real quality on the ball. He deserved the standing ovation he received after his substitution and credit goes to the club for spotting a real gem.
The front two were a handful. I think that was probably the best we’ve seen of Aaron Jarvis this season and he and Tahvon Campbell were a real nuisance for Carlisle’s back four. So often this season we’ve seen Jarvis get embroiled in wrestling with defenders to no avail, but I think he got the better of Carlisle’s’ centre backs and we got to see some more of him with the ball and bringing players into the game. I thought Campbell put in a good all-rounders performance too. He had to do the work in between midfield and attack and did the hold up play too, whilst making life awkward for his opposing defenders.
That was a reassuring performance. That was just the tonic the supporters needed after the poor run. Many – me included – feared a bit of drubbing at the hands of a team that is unbeaten in October but we really showed that there’s more to this team than what we’ve seen of late. There were good performances across the pitch and that should be reassuring for supporters who, understandably, have felt miserable following 3-0 defeats to Boreham Wood, Rochdale either side of the dire FA Cup loss at Hemel Hempstead.
Let’s get some bodies fit! With no match now until the 4th of November we’ve now got a good chunk of time to get some players back fit and firing. Five out of the six outfield substitutes were defenders with the sixth being the returning James Daly who’s been out since August through injury. When Wealdstone come to town on November 4th, there’s a possibility that we have Brett McGavin, Junior Morias, Josh Sims and even Jacob Maddox back available in some form which would turn that ‘small squad of quality’ to a medium-sized squad of quality.
High-flying Carlisle United visit Huish Park today as the Glovers return home after a couple of away days. Ben caught up with the Carlisle fan from work, Jack Cousin.
A fair bit has gone on this week!
Charlie Cooper has left, Ben Wodskou too, we’ve exited the SMPC, skippered the youngest captain in YTFC history, signed a player on loan, have another on the way and host Carlisle tomorrow.
Ian, Ben and Dave catch up on all of the above and take your questions.
We’re a bit miserable. Saturday was miserable. Sunday was miserable. Hopefully Monday won’t be…
Ian, Ben and Dave chat about the loss at Rochdale and take your questions.
Thanks for Ryan Croucher for the voicenote.
It’s a toughie today. Yeovil head to Spotland to face top of the table Rochdale. Could they? Ben’s caught up with Charlotte from The Dale Way podcast to get the low down on the hosts.
Settle in.
Yeovil Town’s Chief Strategy Advisor spends the best part of two hours in Gloverscast company talking through the recent events at Huish Park. We look ahead to the future and try and get into some of the issues that have been bothering supporters of late.
September was crazy wasn’t it?
Here’s how the results went, but that doesn’t begin to tell the story.
| September | ||
| 02.09.25 | Solihull Moors | 1-0 |
| 06.09.25 | York City | 1-3 |
| 13.09.25 | Woking | 1-0 |
| 20.09.25 | Tamworth | 0-1 |
| 24.09.25 | Aldershot Town | 4-1 |
| 27.09.25 | Altrincham | 1-0 |
| 30.09.25 | Sutton United | 2-1 |
Danny Webb was named Yeovil manager on the 12th, taking charge on Tamworth on the 20th before his departure was announced on the 22nd with Richard Dryden being appointed as manager until the end of the season.
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Ugh, another FA Cup defeat for Ian, Dave and Ben to chat through. We try to balance the context of everything, but you can’t help but feel things are bit bluergh after that.
Luke McCormick said it was devastating to lose out in the FA Cup 4th Qualifying Round, but that the Glovers would stick together and bounce back next weekend.
Speaking to BBC Somerset’s Mark Stillman, the midfielder said: “We’re devastated in there. We thought that we started the game slowly. The sending off definitely helped us. And then it’s about quality in both boxes. We definitely had the chances. And look, it is what it is. We’re very disappointed. Sorry to the travelling fans. It’s obviously devastating to to exit the FA Cup at this stage, but full focus back on the league and we need to stick together.”
McCormick said the team got a ‘livener’ at half time “It’s a little bit of a godsend, their sending off. And then, yeah, obviously it gives you a little bit more time on the ball. First half, I didn’t think we were at the races. We got a little livener at half time. And then, listen, we come out second half. It’s always tough, it’s a bit of a lottery when, when a team go down to 10 men but I think we created enough today to get a result. But listen, that’s football. Like I said, we’re bitterly disappointed, and we’ll stick together, and we will bounce back next weekend.”
The 26-year-old concluded: “We wanted to win the game. We wanted to progress. That didn’t happen. So we do what we normally do, win, lose or draw. We come in Monday, we analyse the game, we have honest conversations, we look how we can improve, and then full attention turns to the league, where we’ve been on a good run of late.”
